... unethical behavior through moral disengagement and how ethical leadership buffers this effect. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on the social cognitive theory of morality, the authors conducted a three-wave survey of 413 employees from a large manufacturing firm in China, using confirmatory factor...

...Jianfeng Ma; Xia Wang Purpose This study aims to investigate how and when coworker moral hypocrisy ( CMH ) influences front-line service employees’ unethical behavior toward coworkers (CoUB) and customers (CuUB), with a focus on the mediating role of moral disengagement and the moderating effect...

...Min Wang; Yuqi Liu; Yi Lang Purpose Based on social cognitive theory, this study aims to investigate the influence of perceived overqualification (POQ) on employees’ cyberloafing behavior. The mediating role of moral disengagement and the moderating roles of organizational identification (OID...

...Wei Yan; Huan Chen; Yan He; Cuilian Zhang Purpose This study aims to understand how abusive supervision influences employees’ unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB). In particular, the mediating effect of moral disengagement and moderating role of traditionality on this relationship were...

...Yanzhao Tang; Xuemei Zhan; Ken Chen Purpose This paper aims to examine the effect of differential leadership on organizational corruption by developing a measure of organizational corruption and proposing a moderated mediation model. The model focuses on the mediating role of moral disengagement...